Prince’s Official Memoir Arrives End of 2018

Prince’s official memoir will be published near the end of 2018, according to the music legend’s literary agent Esther Newberg.

The memoir was in negotiation before the untimely passing of the pop icon in 2016. Entitled The Beautiful Ones, the original due date was in last fall, reports Variety.

Newberg, announced the news on Variety‘s weekly “Strictly Business” podcast. He stated that Prince himself had submitted about 50 handwritten pages by the time of his death. The pages may be reproduced for readers in the book.

Prince himself announced during a 2016 appearance in New York that journalist Dan Piepenbring (of The New Yorker) was helping him with the book. Prince said at the time that the book takes readers from his earliest childhood memories to his most triumphant moments, “all the way to the Super Bowl.”

Many were vying for the music maestro permission to get the memoir rights. However, Newberg stated that “editors don’t like to be in the same room making their pitches to the same potential clients. We had to do it because I knew he would not want to meet individually with editors.”

Eventually Prince struck a deal with Speigel & Grau of Random House. Prince reportedly said the publishers “made me an offer I can’t refuse.”